Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : John I
Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 15:48:17

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble wrote:

> RR wrote:
> 
>> Jim Larson wrote:
> 
>>>> I've got Disc 1 at the top of my Netflix queue and I'm going to try
>>>> and check out the flick this week despite my ignorance.
> 
>>> The movie is probably just fine on its own. However, certain events
>>> lose some of their impact if you haven't been along for the
>>> (regrettably short) ride.
>  
>> I really would think that it would *have* to stand alone to be worthy
>> of having been made on such a scale. The show's incredibly short run
>> probably made that a fairly easy thing to accomplish.
> 
> Actually there is a little time lapsed between the end of the series, 
> beginning of the movie, and the characters, while unchanged they have 
> been dialed up a 'little' to recreate tensions that were alleviated in 
> time during the series. The time lapse is sufficient for series watchers 
> to understand things are strained 'again' and for non-series viewers to 
> have tension and conflict to pin the story on. 
> 
> Sci Fi had been running the eps on Fridays, and had a marathon recently 
> of eps... BUT, you should be able to walk into the theater without having 
> seen the series, the first twenty minutes are laden with enough character 
> dialogue and camera/characters-still-moving exposition enough to let you 
> know who everyone is.
> 
> Surprised I haven't seen this mentioned here, they have resolved the 
> Galaxy / Solar System conundrum, the Pilot originally said one thing, the 
> Series said another. The movie has picked Solar System.
> 

Which one?

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